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OrangeAfroMan

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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #168 on: July 31, 2021, 04:22:49 PM »
Quote from: TyphonInc on July 30, 2021, 08:02:30 PM
Reading Comprehension Fail realized by OAM in 3 .... 2 ... 1
This is fun, where you choose - CHOOSE to focus on insulting me and ignore the fact that he listed UVA/VT just above UNC.  So now that we know UNC was a typo and was supposed to be UNL, the point remains the same.
A division with Washington and Virginia in it.  
And you're going to dwell on me.
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You couldn't possibly be the problem at all.
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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #169 on: July 31, 2021, 05:12:37 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on July 31, 2021, 04:22:49 PM
This is fun, where you choose - CHOOSE to focus on insulting me and ignore the fact that he listed UVA/VT just above UNC.  So now that we know UNC was a typo and was supposed to be UNL, the point remains the same.
A division with Washington and Virginia in it. 
And you're going to dwell on me.
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You couldn't possibly be the problem at all.
No. Reading comprehension.
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If the three-division thing is made functional by allowing a four-team league playoff then I think I'd advocate for adding seven schools:
USC
Oregon
Washington
Colorado
Either Stanford, UCLA, Utah, or an Arizona school (would need to research to figure out which was the most valuable)
Either UVA or VaTech
UNC
Doesn't say anywhere, anything, about those schools belonging in the same division as each other.


Pay attention.
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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #170 on: July 31, 2021, 05:21:07 PM »
So an insult instead of a correction.  Much better.
But still, a conference from sea to shining see with 20-some odd teams.  What will we call it?
The Big Ten!!!!!!!
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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #171 on: July 31, 2021, 05:33:13 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on July 31, 2021, 05:21:07 PM
So an insult instead of a correction.  Much better.
But still, a conference from sea to shining see with 20-some odd teams.  What will we call it?
The Big Ten!!!!!!!
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Spit venom, get venom back.

Medina is one of the most careful posters here. And one which doesn't normally get dragged into your crap. So how about you take your medicine and realize that you misread it and flew off the handle wrongly?

Nope, instead you try to change the subject.
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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #172 on: July 31, 2021, 05:42:31 PM »
Of course I misread it.
This isn't about medina, it's about the other guy who rarely posts and when he does, it's 83% insults.  At least I contribute.  
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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #173 on: July 31, 2021, 06:14:14 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on July 31, 2021, 03:57:23 PM
Northern Cal and Southern Cal.

Both solid additions.
I thought I remembered you as one of the "several here" who have used that term.
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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #174 on: July 31, 2021, 06:27:05 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on July 31, 2021, 04:03:48 PM
https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sports/looking-for-new-conference-social-media-reacts-to-promotional-tweet-from-kansas/
Yes, that Kansas City-Lawrence metro area is chock-full of winning sports teams.
But Kansas Jayhawk football is not one of them.
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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #175 on: July 31, 2021, 06:38:38 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on July 31, 2021, 03:38:06 PM
Who are the least likely expansion targets for the B1G?
Anyone worse than Rutger and Merryland.
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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #176 on: July 31, 2021, 06:48:09 PM »
While the bay area is in the Geographic center of the state, it is "North" compared to other major population centers. You see similar concepts  in other states like NY, where West Point, Syracuse and Buffalo are all "Upstate" even though they couldn't be much farther apart from one another. 

Oftentimes what appears to be a geographical abomination actually isn't. Like in Ohio everyone would point to Upper Sandusky being located quite a ways south of Sandusky as one that is ridiculous, but it isn't. The "Upper" is in relation to the elevation and not the direction. The headwaters of the Sandusky River are near Upper Sandusky, and then the River gradually meanders downhill until it dumps in Lake Erie's "Sandusky Bay" on which you find the city of Sandusky. 

Another one that comes to mind is in West Virginia, where South Charleston is basically just a western extension of Charleston. Well this is because of the way that the Charleston River snakes through the area, so that South Charleston is contained entirely on its south bank. 

A third is Westerville Ohio being on the East side of the Columbus metro. It turns out that the name is not a reference to direction at all, and that the city was founded by a man by the last name of Westervelt. However, I cannot leap to the defense of Westerville's geographical sensibilities because their "Central" HS is located quite a ways north of their "North" HS, which is extremely offensive to my geographic sensibilities. Their school system is just blatantly teaching incorrect facts by naming them that way. 
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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #177 on: July 31, 2021, 07:03:55 PM »
I'd opine "New York" is not really new either, except relative to Old York.

North Carolina is in what most view as the south.  I don't know what to do with Arkansas relative to Kansas.  

We have a 'burb called Sandy Springs, which might have springs long lost to development.  Stone Mountain is largely stone at least, which is gneiss.
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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #178 on: July 31, 2021, 07:26:13 PM »
Arkansas and Kansas derive from similar roots.  The Algonquin name for the Quapaw tribe was acansa.  The Algonquin name for the related Kaw tribe was kansa.

It was not until 1881 that it was settled that Arkansas would be pronounced AR-ken-SAW rather than Ar-KAN-ses.

In Kansas, the Arkansas River is known as the Ar-KAN-ses River.  There is a Kansas River--sometimes called the Kaw River--in northeastern Kansas.  It flows into the Missouri River where Kansas City--named for the river--is today.

The former British Empire is littered with "News."

New England, New York, New Jersey, Newfoundland, New Georgia, New South Wales, New Britain, New Ireland, New Hebrides, Nova Scotia, New London.  I'm sure I'm leaving out a bunch.
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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #179 on: July 31, 2021, 08:06:46 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on July 31, 2021, 06:38:38 PM
Anyone worse than Rutger and Merryland.

Kansas is worse than Rutgers and Maryland, and they aren't all that unlikely. 
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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #180 on: July 31, 2021, 08:24:16 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on July 31, 2021, 04:22:49 PM

You couldn't possibly be the problem at all.
Look in a mirror once in awhile.
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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #181 on: July 31, 2021, 09:09:02 PM »
Quote from: CWSooner on July 31, 2021, 07:26:13 PM
Arkansas and Kansas derive from similar roots.  The Algonquin name for the Quapaw tribe was acansa.  The Algonquin name for the related Kaw tribe was kansa.

It was not until 1881 that it was settled that Arkansas would be pronounced AR-ken-SAW rather than Ar-KAN-ses.

In Kansas, the Arkansas River is known as the Ar-KAN-ses River.  There is a Kansas River--sometimes called the Kaw River--in northeastern Kansas.  It flows into the Missouri River where Kansas City--named for the river--is today.

The former British Empire is littered with "News."

New England, New York, New Jersey, Newfoundland, New Georgia, New South Wales, New Britain, New Ireland, New Hebrides, Nova Scotia, New London.  I'm sure I'm leaving out a bunch.
 The Kansas river starts at the confluence of the Kaw and Big Blue rivers.  Some businessmen traveled up the Kansas to the Blue River to start a new town to be called New Boston.  They had a change of heart and named the town Manhattan after the city in New (kinda) York.  It became the home of the KSU Wildcats.
You left out Newport News.:)
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